The WORST episodes of I Am a Killer
Every episode of I Am a Killer ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of I Am a Killer!
Death row inmates, convicted of capital murder, give a firsthand account of their crimes in this documentary series.

#1 - If Things Were Different
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/2024
Ezdeth Highley reflects on her murder conviction, her transition while being incarcerated and what she's learned during her ongoing 60-year sentence.

#2 - Friendly Fire
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/21/2022
After fatally shooting a coworker, Thomas "TJ" Schifferns maintains his innocence. But details surrounding the crime suggest TJ had a motive.

#3 - Family Matters
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/21/2022
A murderer recounts the crime that ended one life and ruined his own. Those affected, including a police officer and the victim's family, also speak.

#4 - Someone Else
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/30/2022
On death row for murder, Deryl Madison reflects on his struggles with mental illness and finds support from an anti-capital punishment advocate.

#5 - A Mother's Choice (2)
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/2025
As Daniel maintains his innocence, more details about Jose Menchaca's murder come to light, shifting the focus to Candie's troubled past and cartel ties.

#6 - Serving Time
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/21/2022
Years after leaving the military, Toby Gregory claims his service and PTSD caused him to murder his wife, Inez. But Inez's family believes otherwise.

#7 - Blackout
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/30/2022
James Walker claims he has no recollection of the 2001 murder he confessed to committing. An investigation into his traumatic past offers more context.

#8 - Redemption
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/16/2024
By helping his fellow inmates, Jamel Hatcher feels he's turned his life around — but not everyone believes his rehabilitation is genuine.

#9 - Loved To Death
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/2024
Convicted for killing his grandmother, Rex Groves insists he no longer holds murderous thoughts towards his family. But their trust isn't easily won.

#10 - Lost Innocence
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/16/2024
Young love takes a dark turn when Ashley Morrison's plan to run away with her boyfriend, Christian Sims, results in the murder of his grandmother.

#11 - A Question of Loyalty
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/30/2022
Subjected to abuse throughout her life, Victoria Smith confessed to killing her husband. But someone close to the case has doubts about her admission.

#12 - Rolling the Dice
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/30/2022
Accept a plea deal or go to trial? Three men receive radically different prison sentences for their roles in the fatal shooting of a cab driver.

#13 - History Repeating
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/30/2022
Daniel Paulsrud says his fatal shooting of partner Leslie was an accident. But accounts from her family - and his handwritten notes - raise doubts.

#14 - A Father's Shadow
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/21/2022
Enraged over his rebellious daughter's choice in men, an extremist father enlists his son in a terrifying plot of intimidation and murder.

#15 - A Brutal Outcome
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/2024
Makueeyapee Whitford claims the murder he committed was an act of self-defense against a rival tribe, but eyewitness testimonies tell a different story.

#16 - A Mother’s Love
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/21/2022
In prison for killing her husband, a woman details her past abuse and her turbulent marriage. Her mother also reflects on their strained relationship.

#17 - A Mother's Choice (1)
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2025
A botched drug deal is only the beginning when Candie Dominguez assists her boyfriend, Daniel Lopez, in his gruesome killing of her cousin.

#18 - The Bogeyman
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/21/2022
Sentenced to life without parole for Jason Johnson's horrific murder, Gary Black says he has no regrets, while Jason's family finds purpose in tragedy.

#19 - Time Bomb
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/8/2025
Leroy Schmitz claims he didn't mean to kill his wife during a drunken argument, pleading that an abusive childhood predisposed him to violence.


#23 - Overkill
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/19/2019
In 1996, David Barnett murdered his adoptive grandparents, stabbing them over 20 times with five different knives. His motivation for doing so remained a mystery until it was discovered that David Barnett claimed to have been subjected to years of physical and sexual abuse, not by his grandparents but by their son, his adoptive father, John Barnett.
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#25 - Trapped
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/12/2019
On October 13th 1984, after 15 years in an unhappy marriage Linda was planning to demand a divorce and according to Linda Couch that night a fight broke out and a gun discharged accidently, shooting Walter in the back of the head, killing him.
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